Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 11:49:06 -0600, John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> said:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:21:03AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>> > Indeed, and this is also why Manoj's vi/KDE argument is not
>> > relevant.
>>
>> > vi serves a useful purpose for an operating system.
>>
>> > Porn/nudes/whatever don't.
>>
>> A CPU monitor does. How the load is displayed, line graph, dancing
>> bars, color changes, morphing pictures, is a preference issue.
> Red herring.
> Nobody objects to the CPU monitor itself. The objection lies with
> the included image, not with the code. Remove that image and I
> don't think there'd be any complaint.
If the program works well, and depicts cpu usage, then the the
image can change the aesthetics, not the utility. In my eyes, you
have just blown all arguments of uselessness to smithereens.
manoj
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January 1901.
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/>
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